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After a decade in the doldrums, guitar-based newcomers like Sleep Token and Wet Leg are making their mark as TikTok catapults ...
The group’s official Instagram account has stated that, “heavy rock and metal are bigger than ever in live music,” and shared key statistics that backs up that assertion. Apparently heavy rock shows ...
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These opening lines from famous rock songs are burned into the brains of generations of fans, years after the songs were released.
In album units, rock is 50% larger than pop music, which has a 14.8% market share, but pop was featured prominently during the show. As was R&B/hip-hop, which is still the biggest genre at a 27.8% ...
The Avett Brothers, the folk-rock powerhouse out of North Carolina, took Wind Creek Steel Stage for Saturday night’s headline ...
Ozzy Osbourne's death is mourned in the music industry, as his groundbreaking influence on heavy metal is remembered.
Now, 30 years later, rock has gone quiet in a music landscape ruled by pop and hip-hop. “It has become a very retro-minded sort of genre at radio,” said Unterberger.
Guitars may seem to matter less than ever. But just beneath the mainstream, dozens of female bands are making some of the most acclaimed, urgent, politically relevant music around.
Rock music has not been this irrelevant since the late 1950s and early 1960s, when its momentum was stalled by Elvis joining the Army, Buddy Holly crashing into an Iowa cornfield, and Chuck Berry ...